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April 15, 2004

New word: orkward

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Posted by Clay Shirky

Don't know how I missed Joey deVilla's great rant on orkut:
Remember that recent issue of The Onion, in which they wrote an article about a car that ran on anger? Maybe emotion-powered physical devices may not be possible, but that's not the case with software. Orkut is powered by _envy_.
And, the best single-image critique of orkut EVAR:

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